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Wednesday, March 31, 1954. SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW

‘ : M4 : Vand the Okanagan. Last year also The fight te prevent drowning ac- According to a survey made by
3 . Wise ar e er poneus rrtabay-nitt MAJOR PROBLEM | saw some 2,677, children examined | cidents will continue this year with | the United States. Office of Naval
fl (( al d el Sy Sunshine Gul i ‘imming i

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lor swiinming proficiency,

ithe swimming and water safety de- | Research, the terrestrial ice cap -at
On “oe . . . ‘t's  tretraetion . eT . > a
on . . . + The Guild-of Sunshine held its IN PROVINCE On the first-aid end of swimming. I pe irtinents instructive courses and} the North Pole is four miles thick
oa Notes From Saanickton Experimental Station , tegular meeting in the board room
. ce .

finn showings, in some parts. . an :

: { the Mahon Hall. M rH ‘Drowning accidents are onc. of the , Jochital, trainin schools. Mee |
Last week ‘the success of hybrid vine crops, including cucumbers and R coe Ma hon . , he aay | Major contributors to. loss. of life ini pops ew estuinster ictorta
| “sweet corn varieties was discussed squash, hybrids have been developed Newnham presided and ‘the treasurer
4 “stand one of the chief. reasons sug-} using: the same general: method as! reported a balance of -$110 on hand:
Be vested. as being the relatively simple ; that employed in praducing corn The sum of $10 was donated to the
OA. technique for producing the seed. | hybrids. _ Red_ Cross and. $10. to the fund for
“In the crossing fields rows of me However, to remove all the victims eel + sale of work
male or. pollen producing parent are ate tor the spring sale of wor
| was set for Tuesday, April 6, when
planted at intervals throughout the: Se Seay, , :
field of the female parent, plants of ( tea will be under the convenership
which are detasselled before pollen | i of Mrs. Frank Sharpe, assisted by
is shed ; Mrs. F. H. May and Miss E. Payne.
is shed. rs will include ¥ 7
Hybrid seed. is’ then harvested | ber or squash blossoms from the Beers wil aide rae Ww
from the female parent plants, pol- | female parent as they are produced, Hasue Mrs, Walter jameski, Mrs.
len being distributed by the action | and thus eliminate all chance "| aaa birieiee °
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ha ae - 7 F QOW tea x Re $ H
British Columbia. Cold”. statistics ! fae ieee paehing ee ross sirst aid. |
: as rt give -
show’ that 122 people were drowned | ° |
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in the province in 1952; 108 in 1951; | couver, -Victoria, Kelowna, New

. 2 |W estminster, Kamloops, Lage ueti ‘Ts-
111 in 1950. Drownings ona yearly | P .
; male
flowers in one operation, as in the

case of corn, the tassels in that crop
being the equivalent of male flowers,

is impossible, and it is necessary to
continually remo -e the’male cucum-

| land, Esquimalt,

basis rate. third with ‘traffic and ‘ac- |
cidental falls.

Aimed “at preventing’ loss of life’
hy drowning is the Red Cross switn-
ming and. water. safety. program.

Last year six instructor schools
were held in Vancouver, Vancouver
Island, the Interior of the province

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f the wind self pollination S. Kitchener, Mrs. George Lowe,
° ev . .

A more recent development is the
production of hybrids in other veget- |
able crops which are normally cither
insect or self pollinated. In certain

masses of chickweed. groundsel and

grass lying in between the trellises

and which can he cultivated out.
Application was made last ca

weg . . Mrs. Walter Norton, Mrs. W. G.
This inevitably results in an in-

creased cost of producing the hybrid
seed,

Seed, however, is one of the lei ast

: ne ~—

Taylor.
Tea hostess for the afternoon was
Mrs. Norton. : ,
ber with knapsack sprayer and with
expensive items in the various pro- | nozzle held low to direct the spray
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Pur Seagram's “83” to the water test.
Water, plain or sparkling,
reveals a whisky’s teue, natural flavour

Cost of the CMU runs to about %%6
per acre with the Premerge a little |
higher.

|
The other herbicide used (SES) |
‘

duction costs, and where a_ signifi-

cant yield increase can be demon-

strated from the use of a hybrid,

together with satisfactory quality : c .

and coniormity to the desired type, failed to give the control required ar
1 the rate applied. We do not antici-

| pate injury to: the logan plants

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q

the commercial grower would in all
probability find its use justified.

though this is always a possibility

It is interesting to note’ that cu and careful attention will be paid °|
t
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cumber hybrids have been found to
be quite widely adapted, whereas
hybrids in other crops often have a
much more regional adaption.
Herbicides

Last October three chemicals
(herbicides) were applied to separ-
ate plots in our loganberry ranges,
lafter canes had been put upon wires.
{These chemicals were CMU, SES
and Premerge and were used at
varying rates. These rates are not
important here.

the new growth,
Gladiolus -
Gladiolus planting: time is coming |
around again and with it the usual
questions such as, do TY have to treat
the corms before planting, what ma-

terials do 1 use, when should 1 plant,
ete.

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The ranges in which Premerge | Experimental Station, Saanichton, This advertisement is not published or displayed. by the Liquor © se - a |
[in CMU were used are completely | B.C.

Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia.:: -

free from weed growth with the ex-| — —.. a Se — —— _
| ception of two or three tufts of a .
grass in one plot. No hocing will be;

required in these ranges this spri ing |

so far as weed growth is concerned. }

These bare strips of soil along the

trellises are jin ‘sharp ‘cont contrast to the

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